Analysis

Aquí presentamos uno de varios artículos con motivo del 150 aniversario del prócer cubano José Martí.

El domingo 19 de mayo de 1895 amanece despejado. Ha llovido en los días precedentes, pero las mañanas son luminosas en este mes caracterizado por los grandes chaparrones, a los cuales sucede la luz del sol irradiándolo todo, como si nada hubiera pasado. Desde el 13 de mayo andan Martí y Máximo Gómez, con sus fuerzas, por el campamento de Dos Ríos, donde los cauces del Contramaestre y del poderoso Cauto se dan la mano, en la Sierra Maestra.

Opinion

NAACP President Kweisi Mfume hailed the Supreme Court’s June 22 ruling upholding the University of Michigan law school admissions program, calling it a “major victory” for affirmative action.

Opinion


You know CEO pay is still out of control when Fortune magazine puts a smiling pig in a suit on the cover and headlines its pay roundup, “Have they no shame? Their performance stank last year, yet most CEOs got paid more than ever.” Fortune, remember, is a leading business magazine, not a union publication.

Opinion

I have come across much news coverage that has been hailing the recent Supreme Court rulings as civil rights victories. However, like the decision, I am split on this. The Gratz and Grutter v. Bollinger decisions were harmful and helpful in more than one respect.

Opinion

“Roe v. Wade hangs by a thread,” said National Organization for Women (NOW) President Kim Gandy, at a press conference announcing a historic march on Washington for reproductive freedom, April 25, 2004, called by leading women’s rights groups.

Opinion

On an almost daily basis, U.S. casualties in the invasion of Iraq continue to mount, one by one, as families grieve for their loved ones who are not coming home. Thus far, there have been more than 50 U.S. military deaths since May 1, the day White House Resident Bush declared the war over.

Opinion

The people of Britain and the United States are living in parallel, yet substantively different, media universes. Bonds of language and overlaps of mass culture are obvious. But a visit to London quickly illuminates the reality that mainstream journalism is much less narrow here than in America.

New Analysis

U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft has called on federal prosecutors to be more aggressive in seeking the death penalty, provoking angry denunciations from civil libertarians all over the U.S. and, indeed, the world.

El secretario de Justicia de Estados Unidos, John Ashcroft, ha señalado el deseo de que sus subfiscales en cada región piden la pena de muerte en muchos más casos. Este afán de prender la electricidad o el gas, o aplicar las jeringas envenenadas, ha producido denuncias indignadas en todo el planeta. En Puerto Rico, la decisión de pedir el uso de la pena de muerte en el próximo juicio de dos hombres, Héctor Acosta y Joel Rivera, acusados de haber asesinado a un comerciante secuestrado, promete surgirse, al lado de lo de Vieques, como causa de protesta nacional.

Opinion

The term “evil corporation” has become somewhat of a cliché over the years. However, in some cases this term is far too kind. The Bechtel Group of San Francisco is a prime example.